UBC helping with national study of opioid addiction treatment
Evan Wood will lead the B.C. arm of the study, which will compare methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone.
An immune cell that performs double duty
Megan Levings, in the Department of Surgery, found that regulatory T-cells not only signal other immune cells to attack but also keep them in check.
Poor air quality kills 5.5 million worldwide annually
More than half of the deaths occur in two of the world’s fastest growing economies — China and India.
Seeking an end to newborns’ “diagnostic odysseys”
Matthew Farrer’s lab will sequence a portion of critically ill infants’ genomes within a week.
A 25-year partnership in professionalizing occupational hygiene
The Faculty of Medicine has Western Canada’s only graduate-level training program devoted to workplace hazards and health impacts.
Faculty of Medicine garners 11 Canada Research Chairs
Among the new appointees, Janice Eng was named a Canada Research Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation.
Common anti-depressant linked to health risk during childbirth
UBC researchers found that use of drugs like Effexor was associated with a higher risk of excessive bleeding during delivery.
New research validates B.C.’s approach to a gynaecologic cancer
David Huntsman’s lab found that simultaneous cancer of the ovary and uterus result from “pseudo-metastasis.”
UBC study leads to Health Canada warning about an antibiotic
Faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences were the first to show a statistical link between oral fluoroquinolones and retinal detachment.
UBC recognizes outstanding researchers of 2015
Bruce McManus, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine recognized the 2015 Jacob Biely Research Prize, UBC’s premier award for research.